Quentin Tarantino recalls fearing the end of his career after firing Lawrence Tierney, only to find support from Michael Madsen.

Quentin Tarantino paid homage Friday to the late actor Michael Madsen -- remembering the time Michael applauded him for ...

Quentin Tarantino recalls Michael Madsen’s reaction after he fired ‘crazy’ Reservoir Dogs co-star - Tarantino remembered ...

Quentin Tarantino has remembered Michael Madsen, after he backed the director's choice to fire Lawrence Tierney on a movie ...

Quentin Tarantino paid tribute to his late friend Michael Madsen as he shared how the star backed him for firing an actor ...

Lawrence Tierney, a veteran character actor and onetime B-movie leading man, has died at the age of 82. Mr. Tierney had suffered several strokes in recent years and had recent bouts with pneumonia ...

Tierney then moved to France for several years, though his alcoholism and scrapes with the law continued. Michael Tierney, the son of Lawrence's brother Edward, said, Larry was married once, I guess.

LAWRENCE TIERNEY, the actor who has died aged 82, was almost as violent and wild in real life as the psychopaths and gangsters that were his stock-in-trade on screen.

“Tierney’s life was more action-packed and outrageous than any movie,” says Kearns, who wrote and produced the 20th Century Fox Burt Reynolds comedy Cloud 9 with Academy Award-winner Al Ruddy.

Lawrence Tierney (March 15, 1919 – February 26, 2002) was an American actor, known for his many screen portrayals of mobsters and hardened criminals, which mirrored his own frequent brushes with ...

Seinfeld banned Tierney from the set, although he and David would joke that “if you aren’t good, we’re going to invite Lawrence Tierney back.” Tierney sounded like a scary dude.